A new Morrissey album is “ready and ‘fluttering wildly against the bars’,” says the singer via the fanzine TrueToYou.

No word yet on the release date of the record, his first in 2 years, as the former Smiths frontman used the forum, instead, to prattle on about the Royal Wedding.

“During the week of the royal dreading, Poly Styrene died,” he started by saying. “Having made an enormous contribution to British art and sound – at a desperate time when so many of us needed her, Poly Styrene’s death was all but ignored by the British television news media, who instead rained hours and hours of blubbering praise onto Kate Middleton – a woman about whom nothing is known on a personal level. The message is clear: What you achieve in life means nothing compared to what you are born into. Is this Syria??”

What we do know is that Morrissey is headed on tour this summer including dates in the UK and Sweden.